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This article explores the political relationship between education and poverty reduction. It argues that authoritarian rule in Africa has exacerbated levels of poverty and sets out six ways in which this has happened. However, the achievement of greater levels of democracy will not be possible unless political culture and civil society in Africa become more democratic but this will depend on the spread of more democratic values and behaviours. As democratic values and behaviours are socially...

School governance reform in post-apartheid South Africa has been used instrumentally to democratise schooling and to calibrate governance functions to accommodate diverse school contexts. Through an analysis of relevant sections in legislation, the author shows how the reform was structured to allow for representative democracy and partnerships. But, drawing on two recent studies, she contends that the governance reforms failed to include measures that prevent a re-enactment of traditional...

The HIV epidemic has greatly increased morbidity in many African cities and severe undernutrition is a prominent feature of the clinical presentation. However, there is little information about the relationship of morbidity or nutritional status to immune damage at a population level. We report a cross-sectional study of morbidity and nutritional status in relation to CD4 count in an impoverished urban community in Lusaka, Zambia, at enrollment into a longitudinal study. Over a 2 month...

Over a period of one school year a study was carried out into the feasibility and effectiveness of introducing active teaching methods into primary schools in Tanzania with a view to enhancing health education. The Lushoto Enhanced Health Education Project had as a focus personal hygiene with reference to the control of schistosomiasis and helminth infections. When a randomly selected group of children were compared with a comparison group there was evidence of changes in both knowledge and...

Education remains the effective way of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Drawing on a study of AIDS education in Uganda, data showed an exclusive curriculum characterised by denial of knowledge, marginalisation of young people (especially girls), lack of straight means for questioning the subject content, and the failure to inform. Possible pedagogies emerge to address the problem of the spread of AIDS in young people. This article discusses the AIDS pedagogy and democratic education in...

The concept of learning organisations is gaining prominence in the non-profit sector. Most organisations see the concept as a means of attaining organisational change for greater impact on development. While the principles of organisational learning (i.e. team learning, shared vision, common goal, and strategy) seem to have produced impressive results in the private sector and some non-profit organisations, the question is whether these principles can be adopted with similar results in...

The University of Botswana has a student population of over 12,000. However, when neighboring South Africa attained majority independence in 1994, the University began to see a great proportion of its international market dwindle. Similarly, an increasing number of universities are offering distance education through the Internet, but the University of Botswana does not yet offer Internet‐based learning. South Africa has a well‐developed higher education infrastructure while the University...

The Tombel graben is a recent monogenetic volcanic field located in the continental part of the Cameroon Line. Magmatic activity began with fissure eruptions emitting large lava flows, and continued with explosive episodes generating cinder cones. Tombel lava flows are made up of three major rock types. Ankaramite yields phenocrysts of Fe–Ti oxides, forsterite olivine and diopside-augite clinopyroxene. In addition to this assemblage, basalt and hawaiite (olivine basalt, doleritic basalt and...

The integration of learning into community development processes and how that learning can stimulate positive change pose challenges that development practitioners have met with mixed success. Who the most effective change agents are, how they can be supported, and how their efforts can be diffused in the community and scaled up are key questions in the community development literature. The authors designed and implemented an action-research project in western Kenya on traditional...

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships among sociodemographic variables, family background, religiosity, course of study, academic performance, and substance use. The sample included 799 first-year students in the age range of 16 to 49 years (M age 20.1 yr., SD = 3.2) chosen at random from the University of the North in South Africa. A Model Core Questionnaire from the WHO on Substance use was administered. Analysis indicated that women smoked tobacco or cannabis and...

Diversity is an acknowledged characteristic of the South African society. Traditional standardised methods of assessment for cognitive functioning have been discouraged or abandoned, as they have been found to be discriminatory. Arguing for a systematic assessment process, a previous researcher has stated that standardised methods are the best ways of achieving understanding of the reasons for the breakdown in learning and ensuring effective intervention. An alternative mod el of...

This study examined the reactions of Black students at a predominantly White college to Black television characters in popular television situation comedies. Black students were exposed to short video clips from popular television programs depicting Blacks behaving stereotypically or counterstereotypically in the presence of White characters or in the presence of Black characters. Perceivers’ level of anxiety was examined. Results revealed that Black participants exposed to a Black character...

The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the General DissoCiation Scale with African American college students, and provide additional data on how to 'assess hypnotizability with these students. .Twp-hundred and two undergraduate African American college students Participated in this study. Students completed the HGSHS:A, a measure of hypnotic depth, the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), General Dissociation Scale (GDS), the Inner Subjective Experiences scoring for the...

The Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods project (DiMP) was developed by the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, along with partner organisations in southern Africa. This comprehensive guide to applying the livelihoods approach to the practice of disaster risk reduction - a direct outcome of the project - comprises a facilitator's handbook and filmed case studies from five southern African countries. The pack contains ten training...

This article reflects on the processes and outcomes of a project which sought to develop knowledge and skills in democratic education among lecturers and students at the School of Education of The Gambia College. Over the course of the project, professional development workshops were conducted, and the impact of these was assessed in subsequent research. The research revealed a variety of responses in terms of the degree of impact that the workshops had had on participants, but also inspired...

Abstract The article looks at the scope and challenges in research and teaching in computational physics in Africa. It is seen that the implementation of computational physics programmes in the majority of the African countries is facing difficulties due to poor economies. This difficulty is further compounded due to fast advancements of hardware and software. As a possible solution, the establishment of a “resource centre” at an international organization along with regional centres, with...

Objective: The study seeks to determine the nature, extent and effects of emotional abuse; and who the perpetrators are in Zimbabwean primary schools. Method: Data collection was twofold because this involved reported cases of emotional abuse and the use of two questionnaires to collect data on the forms of emotional abuse perpetrated on pupils by teachers. First, data of reported cases of emotional abuse were collected from six regional offices of the Ministry of Education, Sport and...

This paper reports on a study of heterosexual adolescent dating violence among secondary school students in a South African community. Approximately half of the surveyed males, and just over half of the surveyed females reported involvement in a physically violent dating relationship either as a perpetrator and/or victim. The study found significant associations between the beliefs about violence in a romantic relationship, the witnessing of physical violence in friendship contexts, the use...

Previous articleNext article No AccessMultilingual Societies and Planned Linguistic Change:New Language‐in‐Education Programsin Estonia and South AfricaSolange G. TaylorSolange G. Taylor Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 46, Number 3August 2002 Sponsored by the Comparative and...